GB2157147A - Process for the production of feedstuffs - Google Patents
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- A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
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Abstract
Feedstuffs for ruminants comprising a water insoluble salt of an edible higher fatty acid and optionally a further nutritional material, especially a proteinaceous feed stuff such as soya bean meal, is produced by forming a mixture of a basic oxide such as calcium oxide, a fatty acid, and optionally the further nutritional material under conditions such that the nutritional material when present is impregnated with fatty acid, adding water to the mixture, and allowing the oxide to react with the acid to form the water insoluble salt. The still hot reacting mixture is spread out so that sufficient water evaporates spontaneously to give a friable product. The process may be operated continuously.
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Process for the production of feedstuffs
This invention relates to the production of feedstuffs, and in particular edible fatty acid salts, and feedstuffs protected therewith.
While the processess of fermentation and digestion which take place in the rumen of ruminent animals are largely beneficial to such animals under natural feeding conditions, modern husbandry may require that, for optimum production of meat and/ or milk, such animals should be fed a proportion of their dietry requirements in the form of nutrients which ideally should not undergo any degredation or alteration in the rumen. Also, it is necessary that such nutrients should not interfere with the normal processes of rumen fermentation.
For example, it is beneficial that a cow should be fed sufficient quantities of fat to maximise her milk production, but it is known if a mature cow is fed more than about 500 g per day of fat, the normal process of rumen fermentation is adversely affected. In particular, triglycerides and free fatty acids can physically coat fibrous or cellulosic material in the rumen and thus prevent it from being broken down by the rumen bacteria. This affect can alter energy metabolism of the animal and reduce the yield of milk. Free fatty acids are toxic to certain bacteria in the rumen and this too can have an adverse effect on the total digestibility of the feed. In adition, under normal conditions, unsaturated fats fed to ruminant animals are hydrogenated in the rumen with the result that most of the fats in milk are saturated.The production of milk containing substantial amounts of unsaturated fatty acid residues requires that the fat be protected from mormal rumen processes.
In the case of protein metabolism, it is known that at certain periods during the growth, development and lactation of cows, insufficient microbial protein is produced in the rumen to meet the animals' full requirements for maximum growth of maximum milk production. It is therefore current practice to feed to cows feed supplements containing a high proportion of rumen-degradable protein, which is rapidly converted into mocribial protein in the rumen. However, it is preferable to feed undergradable protein to cows since this can result in an improvement in growth rate and feed conversion efficiency as compared with use of an equal weight of degradable protein.
There have been a number of proposals of methods for protecting fats and proteins from the effects of rumen fermentation. These methods have for the most part depended upon protecting such fats and/or proteins (and sometimes other nutritional materials such as minerals or essential vitamins) in an insoluable coating which resists the fermentation processes of the rumen.
The present invention provides a process for the production of a feedstuff for ruminants comprising a water-insoluable salt of one or more edible higher fatty acids, and preferably a further nutritional material, which may be, for example, a water-insoluable protein, fat, carbohydrate, mineral, or vitamin, which is protected against alteration in the rumen by the said water-insoluable salt.
This new process comprises forming a mixture of calcium oxide or other water-insoluable basic oxide, one or more fatty acids, and optionally the further nutritional material, under conditions such that the said nutritional material (when present) is impregnated with fatty acid, adding water to the said mixture and allowing the calcium (or other) oxide to react exothermically with the said acid to form the calcium (or other water-insoluable) salt thereof, and spreading out the still hot, reacting mixture so that sufficient water evaporates spontaneously from the mixture to give a friable product.
The reation between the oxide and the acid normally starts spontaneously with little delay after the water has been added, but if necessary the mixture may be heated (before or after the addition of the water) to ensure that rapid reaction occurs.
This process may also be operated without a separate nutritional material, i.e. as an advantageous means for preparing water-soluable edible fatty acid salt in a convenient form. This embodiment of the invention comprises forming a mixture of calcium oxide or another water-soluable basic oxide and a fatty acid, adding water, and further mixing of the said mixture to cause the calcium (or other metal) oxide to react with the said acid to form the calcium (or other water-soluable) salt thereof, and spreading out the still hot reacting mixture so that sufficient water evaporates spontaneously from the mixture to give a friable product.
The invention is however advantageously applied to the protection of proteinaceous feedstuffs which may be degraded by, or interfere with, digestion in the rumen. Thus, it is particularly advantageous to produce feedstuffs comprising a good quality animal or vegetable protein such as, for example, grass meal, lucerne meal, field beans, pea protein, coconut meal, cotton seed, ground nut, linseed, palm kernel, soya bean, defatted soya bean meal, sunflower seed, rape seed, fish meal, meat and bone meal, skim milk, whey protein, distillers by-products, barley, maize, oats, rye, rice, gluten meal, locust bean, canola, feather meal, sorghum, safflower seed, single cell protein, or yeast. All of these materials are suitable, if necessary after appropriate comminution, for feeding to ruminants to improve the quality of their protein intake.The invention is particularly decribed below with reference to the use of defatted soya bean meal, but it will be understood that other watersoluable proteinaceous feedstuffs can be substituted therefor.
The fatty acid may be edible higher fatty acid which forms a water-soluable calcium salt, for example, stearic acid, lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid or linolenic acid, but it is normally preferred to use a naturally occuring mixture of fatty acids derived from, for example, beef tallow, soya oil, palm oil, corn oil, rapeseed oil or lard. Such materials are produced as by-products of oil refining. They normally con tain, in addition to one or more fatty acids, also a proportion of the corresponding glycerides. The presence of such glycerides does not interfere with the process of the invention. Beef tallow acid oil and palm acid oil are particularly suitable for use in the present invention.
Calcium oxide is the preferred basic oxide for use in the new process, but other basic oxides which are non-toxic and form water-soluable fatty acid salts, e.g. magnesium oxide, can in principle be used.
In the new process, the fatty acid, the nutitional material (when present), and the non-toxic basic oxide are first rapidly mixed, and water is added.
While it is possible to mix all the ingredients simultaneously, it is preferred to add the water after the other ingredients have been thoroughly mixed.
If desired, the fatty acid is preheated, e.g. to 80 100"C., to lower its viscosity. After the addition of water a rapid reation occurs between the oxide, the fatty acid and the water. This reation is sufficiently exothermic to raise the temperature of the mixture to over 100"C under normal conditions, and the mixture is rapidly spread out, preferably on a conveyor belt, so that the steam formed is rapidly dispersed. A friable, easy to handle product is thus rapidly and conveniently obtained.
Any proteinaceous or other nutritional material used is likely to contain a small proportion of water even though it appears to be "dry". The presence of such small amounts of water should be taken into account in forming the initial mixture but drying of these starting materials is not normally required.
In the first stage of the process, the fatty acid impregnates any nutritional material present, since the latter is normally porous. This impregnation is important since is ensures that the nutritional material becomes protected by the insoluable fatty acid salt.
The amount of water added is sufficient to permit rapid reaction between the fatty acid and the calcium (or other) oxide but not so great as to cause any problem or unecessary expenditure of energy is subsequently removing it to give a dry product. It may sometimes be advantageous to add the required water in the form of liquid water preheated to near the boiling point, e.g. to 90"C.
Alternatively, or in addition, the fatty acid may be hot when added to the mixture. However, under normal conditions, the calcium oxide and the fatty acid react with sufficient generation of heat to raise the temperature sufficiently so that when the product is spread out evaporation takes place and a dry product is easlity and rapidly obtained.
The proportions of the starting materials are chosen so that the product obtained shall have the desired nutritional composition and also the requisite physical properties. Usually, a satisfactory product is obtained if the fatty acids and the nutritional material are used in approximately equal weight, for example from 35-60% of fatty acid to 65-40% of nutritional material. The proportion of the basic oxide used is substantially the amount of calculated to react with the total fatty acids present. The proportion of water added is preferably the minimum amount consistent with complete reaction between the fatty acids and the basic oxide.
For example, if the nutritional material is defatted soya bean meal (containing not more than 2% of fat and 12% of water) and the fatty acids are palm acid oil (containing about 75% of fatty acids consisting mainly of palmitic acid 43%, oleic acid 43%, and linoleic acid 9%), and the basic oxide is calcium oxide to seven parts by weight of the acid oil and eight parts by weight of the soya meal. The amount of water then added may be 10-40% or better 20-30% and preferably about 20% by weight of the total weight of the acid oil and the calcium oxide.
It is a particular advantage of the present invention that it may be operated continuously. Thus the soya meal or other nutritional material may be mixed with the acid oil, and calcium oxide, water is then added, and the reacting mixture is then fed rapidly through a mozzle onto a moving belt on which the reaction proceeds to completion. Most of the water present is boiled off while the mixture is on the belt, and the latter is long enough to allow the mixture to cool substantially to room temperature and become converted to a dry friable product before it is sized, sieved and bagged.
It is a further advantage of the process that when the nutritional material is ground whole soya bean, the trypsin inhibitor present therein is substantially destroyed by the heat evolved during the process.
A preferred apparatus for operating the process of the present invention is shown diagrammatically in the accompanying drawing. In the drawing, calcium oxide (lime) from the hopper 1, and hot acid oil (at 100 C) from line 2 are mixed in predetermined proportions in the mixing pump 3. Water at ambient temperature is added through line 4. The mixture of starting materials at about 100"C is fed through mixing pumps 5 and 6 and rapidly discharged as a semi-liquid reacting mass at about 105"C on to the continuously moving conveyor belt 7 as a layer 8. A liquid retaining box 9 is provided to keep the reacting mixture while it is still liquid from spilling over the edges of the conveyor belt.
The latter has a concave cross-section as shown in
Figure 2. Steam is evolved from the mixture while it is on the belt. At the end of belt 7 lumps of the product fall through a sizing machine 10 onto a second continuous conveyor belt 11 to form a layer 12. In this layer the reaction and the drying are completed.
From the belt 11, the now dry product falls into the sifter 13 from which it is collected in appropriate bags for transportation and storage.
This arrangement can readily produce one tonne or more per hour of bagged product containing less than 5% by weight of water.
Under typical conditions, the mixture of calcium oxide, fatty acid, water, and nutritional material (if any) can be formed, thoroughly mixed and discharged on to the first conveyor belt 7 in 10 to 20 seconds, e.g. 12 to 15 seconds. The residence time on the first belt, which may be for example four feet (120 cm.) across, is typically about 30 minutes, and the total overall time from mixing to bagging may be about 22 to 3 hours.
The initially formed mixture containing fatty acid, calcium oxide and water is very sticky and it is important that the pumps 3, 5, and 6 are constructed so as to be able to handle the mixture without clogging or the need for frequent cleaning. Centrifugal pumps have been used with their impellers constructed so as to fit very closely the interim surface of the pump housing. This produces a selfcleaning action in the pump which can operate for long periods without any stoppages for cleaning being required.
It is a simple matter, if desired, to include a separate nutritional material in the process described above so that, in the final product, the calcium (or other) salt of the fatty acid forms a protective layer on the nutritional material.
Some feedstuffs, especially liquid feedstuffs containing a substantial amount of water, e.g. whey, may be added to the mixture as it is discharged on to the belt 7. The heat of reaction is sufficient to dry substantial proportions of such feedstuffs.
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1. A process for the production of feedstuff for ruminants which comprises forming a mixture of calcium oxide or other water-insoluble basic oxide, one or more edible high fatty acids, and optionally a further nutritional material under conditions such that the said nutritional material (when present) is impregnated with fatty acid, adding water to the said mixture, and allowing the calcium or other oxide to react exothermically with the said acid to form the calcium or other water-insoluable salt thereof, and spreading out the still hot reacting mixture so that sufficient water evaporates spontaneously from the mixture to give a friable product.
2. A process according to claim 1 in which a mixture is formed of calcium oxide and fatty acid, water is added, and the mixture is further mixed to cause the calcium oxide to react with the said acid to form the calcium salt thereof, and the still hot reacting mixture is spread out so that sufficient water evaporates spontaneously therefrom to give a friable product.
3. A process according to claim 1 in which a mixture of calcium oxide,one or more fatty acids, and a proteinaceous feedstuff is formed under conditions such that the feedstuff is impregnated with fatty acid, water is added to the mixture, and the calcium oxide is allowed to react exothermically with the said acid to form the calcium salt thereof which protects the proteinaceous feedstuff against alteration in the rumen, and the still hot reacting mixture is spread out so that sufficient water evaporates spontansously therefrom to give a friable product.
4. A process according to claim 3 in which the proteinaceous feedstuff is defatted soya bean meal.
5. Process according to claim 3 in which the nutritional material is ground whole soya bean meal and the mixture reacts at a temperature high enough to destroy the trypsin inhibitor present in the soya bean.
6. A process according to any one of claims 3 to 6 in which the mixture formed contains from 35 to 60% by weight of fatty acid and 65 to 40% by weight of the nutritional material, and an amount of the basic oxide required to react with the total fatty acids present.
7. A process according to any one of claims 1 to 6 in which the fatty acid is stearic acid, lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid and/or linolenic acid.
8. A process according to any one of claims 1 to 6 in which the fatty acid is a naturally occuring mixture of fatty acids derived from beef tallow, soya oil, palm oil, corn oil, rapeseed oil or lard.
9. A process according to any one of claims 1 to 8 in which the amount of water included in the mixture is 10 to 40- by weight of the total weight of fatty acid and basic oxide.
10. A process according to claim 1 substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
11. A process according to claim 1 substantially as hereinbefore described.
12. Afeedstufffor ruminants comprising a water insoluble salt of an edible higher fatty acid when produced by the process of any claims 1 to 11.
13. A nutritional material protected with an edible water insoluble fatty acid salt against alteration in the rumen when produced by the process of claims 3 to 6.
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